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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2008;15(2):121–127. doi: 10.1080/09286580701840370

Table 3.

Demographic, health and transportation characteristics among study participants who did and did not attempt license renewal.

License Renewal
Sought License Renewal and Passed Initial Test (N=743) Sought License Renewal and Failed Initial Test (N=100) Did Not Seek License Renewal (N=209) p-value / p-value
Age (years), mean (sd) 84.1 (3.7) 83.9 (3.3) 86.4 (4.3) 0.66 / <0.0001
Gender, % (n) 0.14 / <0.0001
  Male 43.1 (320) 51.0 (51) 26.8 (56)
  Female 56.9 (423) 49.0 (49) 73.2 (153)
Race, % (n) 0.58 / 0.24
  White 96.1 (714) 98.0 (98) 94.7 (198)
  Black 2.0 (15) 1.0 (1) 4.3 (9)
  Other 1.9 (14) 1.0 (1) 1.0 (2)
Marital status, % (n) 0.70 / <0.0001
  Widowed 57.8 (428) 64.0 (64) 71.2 (148)
  Married 34.4 (255) 29.0 (29) 17.8 (37)
  Divorced 4.2 (31) 3.0 (3) 2.9 (6)
  Single 2.8 (21) 3.0 (3) 7.2 (15)
  Other 1.1 (8) 1.0 (1) 1.4(3)
Type of residence, % (n) 0.92 / <0.0001
  Residential home 80.1 (593) 81.0 (81) 62.1 (128)
  Retirement community 12.4 (92) 13.0 (13) 24.8 (51)
  Apartment 7.4 (55) 6.0 (6) 13.1 (27)
Cognitive score, mean (sd) 2.2 (2.0) 2.2 (1.8) 3.1 (2.7) 0.88 / <0.0001
No. chronic medical conditions, mean (sd) 4.0 (2.0) 4.6 (1.9) 5.4 (2.6) 0.0018 / <0.0001
Use other forms of transportation, % (n) 0.0002 / <0.0001
  No 66.1 (491) 47.0 (47) 0.5 (1)
  Yes 33.9 (252) 53.0 (53) 99.5 (208)
    Get rides from family and friends* 81.4 (205) 88.7 (47) 81.3 (169) 0.24 / 0.98
    Use public transportation 6.8 (17) 5.7 (3) 13.9 (29) 0.77 / 0.01
    Take taxis 3.6 (9) 7.6 (4) 14.9 (31) 0.19 / <0.0001
    Use community shuttle buses 5.6 (14) 5.7 (3) 14.9 (31) 0.98 / 0.0008
    Other 11.5 (29) 11.3 (6) 7.2 (15) 0.97 / 0.15

For the comparison of those who sought renewal and initially passed vs. those who sought renewal and initially failed.

For the comparison of those who sought renewal and initially passed vs. those who did not seek renewal.

*

Responses sum to more than 100% as multiple responses required.